Mirha-Soleil Ross is a legendary trans activist and performer. She was the editor of Gendertrash From Hell, the organizer of the first ever trans film festival Counting Past Two, and the creator of multiple one-woman performances including "Yapping Out Loud: Confessions of an Unrepentant Whore". Her work since the early 1990s in Montreal and Toronto has focused on transsexual rights, access to resources, advocacy for sex workers and animal rights.

"There is an alternate history of what we now call trans studies, trans culture, trans literature, one that is not USian and monolingual in its origin stories and normative framework, one that begins rooted in sex worker, racialized, Indigenous and street active transsexual and transgender peoples communities, one that is not "queer paradigmed" in its frame, or oriented towards respectability or institutional legitimation."
--Trish Salah, Lambda Award-winning author of Wanting in Arabic and Lyric Sexology, Vol. 1

"Searing, witty, critical and defiant ... It feels just as pressing now as it did in the early 1990s. ... The pages of Gendertrash are filled with poems, essays, rants, fictions, speeches, surveys, interviews, resource lists and personal ads--largely for and by trans people, against the straight establishment, as well as the cis gay and lesbian movement, who were only too happy to throw trans people under the bus in order to gain rights for themselves. Sound familiar?"
--Xtra

"A breathtaking archive of our community and our struggle for connection, acceptance and liberation. Within these pages I can recollect the path of my own forming, reflections and refractions of the zines and message boards and chatrooms of my past, laid out like stepping stones to my current self. An absolute vital work for a precipitous time!"
--Lilly Wachowski, co-director of The Matrix

"Riotous ... fascinating ... The most powerful aspect of this compendium is witnessing the zine grow its readership and outreach via its expanding personals section, letters to the editor, and cross-advertising from other trans publications. It's a remarkable and inspiring record of community-building."
--Publishers Weekly

"An unretouched gift for future generations."
--Shelf Awareness

"As true, beautiful, and relevant as ever."
--Quill & Quire

"Beautiful. Powerful. Dangerous. Cold. It would be important to put Gendertrash back into print solely as a historical document--evidence that trans people have been uncompromising about the things that matter for a lot longer than you might have heard. But Gendertrash is a lot more than that. Everything here is still relevant, vital, even crucial. Also? What a potent reminder to make a zine. You. Today. Interview your friends. Make a zine. What a gift."
--Imogen Binnie, author of Nevada

"Thank the Goddexx for Gendertrash and its far-reaching vision, uncompromised ethos, its lust for sharing and also for lust, its wildness and its crucial, lived knowledge. A perfect, angry, art community in a zine; a deeply necessary collection, then and now and always."
--Michelle Tea, Lambda Award-winning author of Valencia and Black Wave

"You're doing a print edition of Gendertrash from Hell?! I've been hoping for something like this for years!"
--Alice Stoehr, The Irreverent Bookworm (Minneapolis, MN)

"It's a dream come true to be able to hold Gendertrash, after years with the PDF. What a gift to trans life. If theory mutilates and surgery liberates, Gendertrashhas always been a scalpel."
--Saul Freedman-Lawson, Another Story Bookshop (Toronto, ON)

"Trans people are often told that 'we have always been here, ' but it's rare to see that laid out in a way where we feel lifelike. It's one thing to show idealized images of past figures; it's another to make them feel real."
--The Needle

"Wait, are you serious? Oh dude, this is so big. The era of passing around that one Xanthra Phillippa poem out of context on Insta stories is over. The girls are going to learn ... genetics on notice!"
--Joyce Laurie, editor of Picnic magazine

"Who knew, back in the early 1990s, that trans people could love one another like this?"
--Leah Tigers, historian, trickymothernature.com

"Gender's back in town, baby!"
--Lou Barcott, Myopic Books (Chicago, IL)

"Electrifying ... a fresh connection to a meaningful method of trans resistance through literary communion."
--Cleaver

Publisher: Littlepuss Press

Pub date: 2025-11-04

Length: 344 pages